Oh lordy, more superfoods. This time it’s Jamie’s Super Food (Channel 4). I don’t want quinoa, or wheatgrass juice, green cardboard (kale), bloody goji berries or River Rocket … wait, that’s his new progeny, not food. I want to eat stuff that’s nice to eat, and if it’s good for me too, that’s a bonus.
What’s he offering then? For breakfast: pineapple pancake mess, with yoghurt, coconut, cashew nuts and a drizzle of honey. To be fair, that does look delish. Are you sure it’s superfood, Jamie? It’s got one of my five a day, it uses wholewheat flour for the pancakes, and each portion is only 300 calories. A lovely idea, but who’s really going to chop up pineapples and make pancake mix for breakfast? At the weekend maybe, but on a school day? And what about Shreddies – are they not a superfood?
Now Jamie’s off to Sardinia to learn how to make a special kind of hair-like pasta from a nice pasta granny. They love Jamie, the ladies, especially the older ones. Then he adapts it into his own dish of spinach pasta, courgettes and tomatoes for lunch.
This makes me happy, because it has pasta in it. I get a hard time in my house for being overreliant on pasta. Now I have new weaponry and confidence. Look, it has the blessing of St Jamie of Essex: pasta’s a superfood! I’m still not convinced about actually making it myself, though, and whether life is long enough. He makes it look easy, but you know that if you tried it would be a lot of time and mess.
Next, to the island of Jeju, in South Korea, for kimchi, getting stuck in and more charming of the locals. Quick, get rid of Boris, make that man foreign secretary. That’s the way to put Britain back on the world map.
Then he adapts again, makes his own Korean-style broth dinner, with chicken and mushrooms and tofu and kimchi. (That’s what Koreans say when they’re being photographed.) I really am going to do this one. And it’s got noodles in it. That’s pasta too, isn’t it? Twice a day! I love you, Jamie. Well, everyone does.
